Quotes about Commandment
So the former commandment is set aside because it was weak and useless
- Hebrews 7:18
For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,
- Hebrews 9:19
It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.
- 2 Peter 2:21
Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.
- 1 John 2:7
Then again, I am also writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and also in you. For the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.
- 1 John 2:8
And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.
- 1 John 3:23
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
- 1 John 4:11
And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.
- 1 John 4:21
And now I urge you, dear lady—not as a new commandment to you, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.
- 2 John 1:5
It is much easier to fail to love your parents than to fail to love your children. That is why there is a commandment that commands love and respect to parents, but not to children. In an age of abortion, there ought to be an eleventh commandment against neglecting, harming, abusing, or even murdering your own children.
- Peter Kreeft
The difference between a counsel and a commandment is that a commandment implies obligation, whereas a counsel is left to the option of the one to whom it is given.
- Peter Kreeft
our primary practical commandment in this life, to love our neighbors: it is not only for their and our good in time, but also preparation for our and their eternal blessedness.
- Peter Kreeft